I’ve known Mozilla being great wouldn’t last forever, and there it is. Someone from those companies at the helm? Here comes the enshitification.
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Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
I think Mozilla could use a new CEO and I want to be optimistic. That said:
- Red flag 1: The made someone from the BoD the new CEO. This rarely works out well
- Red flag 2: The new CEOs CV is full of things that turned into menaces to the public and/or internet (airbnb, paypal, ebay)
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 7 months ago
treadful@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Hard to say. You kind of want someone that was part of a successful product. And successful for-profit products are almost always menaces.
Zorque@kbin.social 7 months ago
Yes, but hiring someone who's good at making for-profit "services" successful generally means you want your product to be for-profit.
And as you say, successful for-profit companies are often menaces.
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Would you call any of those successful products ‘good’ tho? Yes they have made a lot of money but at the same time…2 of 3 are straight up evil. Ebay…eh. Could be worse. Thats all I can say there. Paypal has straight up stolen people’s money on countless occasions and gotten away with it. Then there was that huge violin fiasco. Airbnb is straight up a part of destroying the housing market, they know this, they don’t care.
I get it, most big companies are ‘menaces’ like you say but…these are absolutely horrible companies responsible for true evil and, odds are, he’s going to bring that energy to Mozilla.
treadful@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
I don’t really disagree, but what do you want as an organization, someone that built a “good” product that nobody ever used and fell into obscurity? Or someone that built a product that attracted and retained millions of users that you might consider “bad”? And tbh, most of the “bad” from these products is just because of their size and monopoly, which would arguably be a good problem to have for Mozilla.
Probably an easy choice if I was on the board.
Also, not that it matters to our discussion but just as a minor correction, the new CEO is a woman.
iopq@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Airbnb actually provides a useful service, unlike PayPal which only extracts fees
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
We can version freeze forever. Anything that won’t work in 2023 firefox is probably trash anyway.
netburnr@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So you can’t. There are cert stores, new protocols and ciphers, and eventually u patched zero days.
I know this because I’ve been playing with a g3 powerboat and all the browsers at this point are no longer maintained to support the above things as of last year. The last person working on it gave up
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Not much of problem. Run in a VM, disable certificate validation. Html5 and javascript is still going to last a long long time. Anything that can’t run with that is soydev shit and you don’t need it.
LibreFish@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Called palemoon, except version freeze is much older.
Anything else will goatsy your computer to all forms of zero days.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Yeah the Airbnb, PayPal, eBay pedigree has me more concerned than anything. I wouldn’t want any of Mozilla’s stuff to be anything close to these things.
0x2d@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
what happened with ebay?
olorin99@kbin.earth 7 months ago
Well there was this thing. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/29/ebay-executive-sentenced-couple-harassment-newsletter
ikidd@lemmy.world 7 months ago
eBay banned NFTs, I’m onboard with eBay.
ifGoingToCrashDont@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yep. Not a single non-profit or open-source related position in her CV
Contend6248@feddit.de 7 months ago
You gotta start somewhere, just give her a chance, we’ll see if she fucks up or not
dustyData@lemmy.world 7 months ago
She smells of glass cliff to me. We’ll see.